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Thursday, August 16, 2012

*Update* ManLove Press authors James Buchanan, J.P. Bowie, and
Marshall Thornton will read from their work and sign books at Get Booked's Pride booth on
Saturday, September 8, 2012 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm. Vegas Pride will be held at the Clark County Government Center, located at 500 S. Grand Central Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89106.

A FREE Shuttle will run throughout the day of the festival between the
Gold Parking Lot at the World Market Center and the PRIDE Festival Main
Entrance.

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Re-post for signal boost if you would.

Laurie Kahn needs our help to finish the film Love Between the Covers.
She just launched a Kickstarter campaign, and if you go to her Kickstarter page (lovebetweenthecovers.com) you can see a fun video preview of the film,

Love
Between the Covers is a documentary film tackling the diversity and
wonder of the Romance Community and it's impact on lives and literature.
When the film is finished, it will be broadcast worldwide, seen at film
festivals, and used in high school and university classrooms. If this
project is completed, it will help change how the world sees the romance
community. So let’s help her make it happen!

This is a really
exciting project. Laurie is a wonderful film maker, a winner of
primetime EMMY and Peabody awards, who has been collecting footage at
romance conferences,
doing interviews, talking with folks to get the pre-production made.
The lovely thing is she tackles all flavors of romance with no bias and
with a real love for the community. Its a film that really needs to be
made.

And, heck, look at who the first face you see is :P.

The
Kickstarter campaign has a $50,000 goal and a deadline of August 26.
That means we have to get at least $50,000 in pledges by Sunday the
26th (ie in the next 26 days) or we receive NONE of the money that has
been pledged! If we raise more than $50,000 by that deadline, we will be
allowed to keep EVERYTHING that has been pledged. So every gift really
matters. It's crucial to mobilize people who want this project to
happen in the next few weeks! I know Laurie would be grateful for any
donation you could give, no matter the size.

Love Between the Covers is part of the larger Popular Romance Project,
and the footage Laurie and her crew are shooting for Love Between the
Covers will also be used at a symposium about the deep roots of popular
romance at the Library of Congress, in nationwide library programs about
popular romance run by the American Library Association, and at a huge
website looking at popular romance across time and cultures. You can
already check out the prototype of that website at
PopularRomanceProject.org – it’s well worth visiting.

The campaign has to raise $50,000 in pledges by Sunday August 26th or
she gets NOTHING. If she raises more than $50,000 by that deadline,
she’ll get to keep EVERYTHING that has been pledged. So every gift
really matters. And this is a romance community, we're hundreds of
thousands strong. If everyone pledged a buck, she'd make the goal and
then some!

Laurie has asked for $50,000, but she actually needs more than that
to complete the film and keep the Popular Romance Project moving
forward. So don’t stop giving if the $50,000 mark is reached! (She is
$200,000 short of what she needs to complete the film, launch it in the
world, plan the symposium, and keep PopularRomanceProject.org alive and growing.)

Now, there's also perks for pledges: For a pledge of $35, someone who
pledges can pre-buy a copy of the film, and also get a credit at the
SUPPORTER page of the Popular Romance Project website and a fabulous
magnetic bumper sticker. There are other gifts, too. Laurie is
offering a wide range of donor gifts at Kickstarter, including copies of
the film, first chapter critiques, a thank-you in the film credits, and
tickets to the film premiere. Project supporters can give as little as
$1, or as much as $5,000. For $5,000, Laurie will fly to the donor's
hometown before the film is broadcast for an intimate private film
premiere with the donor's friends/family/readers, where she’ll answer
any and all questions!